The Sun. — London, England, 1826-12-30 00:00:00

u ~ "~~ ~, _ ~, _ .~., s uur mos t zealous wish, that the present able ex *" It . the Quarterly,. maybe, read and commented posom " e ry adult in k the tinite# Kingdom. For our 'L ll p:r v ts, we prefer a pick-pocket to a patriot ! -- The Corn LaWs, ' which form the ground-work of the eleventh article comes forward, at a time when its opinions Are likely to have an extensive influence. The character of this analysis is liberal' to a degree which would perfectly electrify the readers of the Quarterly in its good old bi goted years of the war. The part it takes seems to be something like the following, to explain which a brief ins troduction may be thoUght necessary. It is well knawn that at the present moment two powerful interests—the agricultural and commercial--are angrily contending with each other in the Parliament.. The one is the more wealthy and influential ; but the other, driven to the lowest state of distress, has become powerful from its vety , fitespair, as no strength is equal to the convulsive energies of a dyingman. In this state of things the .Ministry are eitdeavouring to mediate between the two rivals, to give a 'free trade in corn for the benefit of the commercial inte rests, with (no doubt) a prornise of some ulterior advan tages to the agricultural. Hitherto they have been tole rably successful; but the Quarterly, anticipating the moment when hey must declare themselves in favor either of one or the other, boldly pre-occupies the subject end thunders forth its dogmas as an uncompromising adVetate of free trade. Thug, while it treads on the saute td aid with Government, it goes two degreeti beyond it; and will, no doubt, have some effect in smoothing the road for others. We recommend the article, eherefore, as a valuable guide to all who are anXions to enter the " debateable land" of politics: there is enough in it to set up many a member for life, sutd thrust an idea into that obtuSe skull which has been hitherto guiltless of even the ghost Of one. Our limits here warn us to a close ; had we, how ever, had space we might, in - noticing the " Servian Min strelsy," have instituted a comparison between the Illyrian, Scandinavian and Anglo-Norman poetry, as/there are re semblances in imagery and sentiment to be found between them, highly curious to speculators on human character.-- But we have said enough, we hope, to induce the reader to peruse attentively this number of the Quarterly, convinced that he will find in it subjects for interesting inquiry, whether as regards literature, politics, or science, In con clusion, we cannot refrain from observing how gratify ing it must be to. its Ex-Editor to consider that the seed which, with so much difficulty, he sowed some years since on a doubtful soil, has, by Judicions attention, shot up into a luxuriant tree, whose branches now over-spread Eu rope 'with their foliage, while thousands repose delighted beneath the proud security of their shade. FENIALE FASHIONS FOR JANUARY. (From the La Belle AsselNWe.) 'WALKING DRESS.—A high pelisse dress of state-coloured gnu de Naples, with a broad border, formed of twisted rouleaux, set on in bias stripes at separate distances, and confined above and beneath under a rouleau, which two iauleaux cross the skirt, and complete the border : the sleeves loose, with mancheruns formed of double scallops trimmed round with quilling of roe de Naples, pinked. A pelerine cape, the same as the dress, fastens behind, and is finished by a narrow failing collar of the same; above which is tied round the throat a pink silk sautoir. Under a plain black velvet boenet is worn a cornelte of British lace, or namented with full-blown roses. MORNING COSTUME.—A gown, Made partially high, ►,f lage-green gras 4e Naples, bordered with two scalloped flounces, edged with a bias binding of satin. The body en geibe, w►th ajfekwioeierie, forming a. sort of stomacher, which, falling over the shoulders, in ►deft manchernns, somewhat elevated, gradually terminates in a point under the belt. From the throat, over these, falls a Maltese collar of fine India muslin, with a double quilling round the edge of thread tulle. A bonnet, of bird-of-paradise-yellow, is ornamented with putts of yellow sarcenet, with bows of slate-coloured gauze next the crown, brocaded with Meek flowers. This bonnet ties elose,tintier the chin, on The left side. Ba a slip of amber-coloared Satin, a dress of Mlle, the border, With two rows of amber gauze, Mallon& ; the bouillon placed on the border, in Close/ens eheval, and forming a rich and striking tort of trimming. The body is a la Ciivaisienne, with a broad sash of amber coloured satin; a small rosette on the left side, in the centre of which is a pearl ornament ; long ends, edged round with, narrow blond of a Vandyke pattern, descend somewhat lower than the knee, 'The sleeves are short and full, of amber satin, trimmed with blond, mid finished down the outside of the arm with silk buttons. Bracelets of gold, very ,broad, encircle the wrists, and are wornover the gloves : they are fastened with a turnpoise brooch. The tresses are arranged in curls on one side, and in it light transparent bow on the other. Detached bouquets of roses, with a slight portion of their green foliage, are sparingly, but tastefully scattered over the head. The ear pendants are of pearls, and the necklace is formed of one rowof very large pearls. A.gort of long chain, formed of Egyptian pebbles, is hung over the neck and bust, from which depends u large patriarch Greek cross of black 'and gold enamel., OPERA DRESS.---A dress of etherial blue, or of pink crePelisse, ornamented at the border with rouleaux, in festoons, and bows of sati►► : a full wadded rouleau next the shoe, concealing the hem : the body orn►nnented cross wise, with satin stra[►s. The sleeVes very short, and bracelets worn over the gloves, of coral in oval pieces, each surrounded by filagree -gold. Hat of black velvet, with superb white plumage; a rich ray of feathers ap pearing in front, and one very long feather drooping over the left shoulder, towards which s►de the hat ht very con spicuously inclined. On the side of the hair that this ob liquity discovers, are two short marabout feathers placed under the brim of the hat. The mantle, which it of the Venetian form, is of violet of puce-cOlouredchequered velvet, with a large pelertine cape, and is lined throughout, according to fancy, with either white satin, or a colour the same as the cloak. THE ARMY. The 2d battalion of the Cold-stream Guards marched yesterday morning from Westminster Quarters to the Tower. The let battalion of the 3d Regiment of Guards was to march into the Westminster Quarters yesterday from Manchester. A detachment belonging to the 16th Regiment of Foot, march al yesterday morning from the Tower,. for Chatham, to embark for Ceylon, The Depots of the 16th and 40th Regiments of lefentry march ed yesterday miming, from the Tower, for Weedon Barracks. A detachment belonging to the East India Company's Service, is ordered to embark this morning, on hoard a steam-vessel in the River, for Gravesead, on route to Chatham. A detachment belonging tOthe 4,34 Regiment of Foot, arrived in town, yesterday morning, from Cambridge, on route to Plymouth. The first division of the 1 lth Foot marched, on Thursday, from Waterford, for Fermoy, preparatory to embarking at Cork, for Lisbon. The grand division of the reginmit follows on Tues. .day, the 26th inst. Tice depot is already formed—no r iryK e n y , commanding ; Lieut. Geo. Benson, Paymaster ; end Lieut. Wes:- tropp, Adjutant. The order from the Hum Guards arrived on Tuesday in Waterforil. The regiment is in a most effeetive.state, and has been all through the Peninsula, under the Duke of Wel.: 1 4ton. . - Sir Ewen Campbell ia appointed Temporary Asoistant termaster-aineral in Ireland. This vacancy is created by the promotion of Lientenant-Colonel Drake frOm this district to the lonian Mande. DENfir. FOG.—The evenings 6f Monday and Tues day were rendered eetremely unwholesOme by a thick inlet or fog, which enveloped every thing in the deepest gloom, and consider ably facilitated the operations of street robbers. So dense was the atmosphere in the later periods of the evenings, that the lamps were scarcely visible, and, to use a homely phrase, a man could not %Cc his lutad before his lace, Many gentlemen, who were travelling in ,gigs, were obliged to alight,, and leave them and their hones in the nearest place of safety, for fear of accidents_; and several of the stage-coaches were delayed a good deal beyond their usual time, in consequence of the danger of going at more than a foot-pact;....lettnehester hierald. Pont GIN IikITELLIGENCt. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Etoile of Thursday. We were the first to announce the rectation of the speech of Mr. Canning, as superintended by himself, and we at the same time gave the words of the Times, which, for sonic time past, has been the organ of the British Mi nister for Foreign Affairs. - Our readers will now under stand the reasons why we abstained from making any re mark Upon the extempore speech, although we were the first to give the articles of the English Itnirtuds in which the singular words made use Of by their Ministers were refuted. We feel a .'great gratification in applauding this sct Of Mr. ermiifgy which is the only one of the kind con tained it the English annals; and we agree with the Timer in believing, that when -a person ia, by the ardour of his character s subject to error, it requires no small share of candour and . fraeknesS to avow and repair it. It is there fore-with real satisfaction that we insert some more pas sages of the reetitied report of Mr. Canning's speech, which, having become the calm and deliberate expression of his sentiments, and being 'longer the effect of the hurry (oaf/or/604 and impetuosity of improvisation, are more; apifropriate than those which were uttered. If A Ifylle de Neuville had waited like us he would not have printed his useless observations, which could scarcely be believed to have proceeded from a man who conducted King John the:Sixth on board an English vessel. [The Etude here. quotes largely from Mr. Canning's speech, and, coming to that part in which M r . C. a ll u de s to the French army enteringinto Spain, says I—Here Mr. Canning says that he called the New World into existence, in order to re-establish the political balance—forgetting that it was not the War waged by us in Spain which pro duced this result, since a long time previous to the Mi nistry of Mr. Canning, Lord Castlereagh declared, at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, that England would sooner or later recognize the Independence of the Spanish Co lonies. (From the Courrier Francois.) PARIS, DEC. 26, Authentic accounts troth Madrid state, that King Fer dinand, iu consequence of the ultimatum which has been presented to him, requiring him. to answer it without de lay and without subterfuge, has just recognised the Con stitutional Government and Charter-of Portugal, has pro mised to send an Ambassador to Lisbon, and to receive one from the Regency; to break off all kind of commo tion* and complicity with the Portuguese rebellion; and to give all other kinds of satisfaction which have been required of him by England. We have no doubt of this first result on the part of a Prince who has taken care to protest before-band against the engagements which necessarily might lead him to con tract, and who, very different from our poor King John, seems to be persuaded that good faith is not one of the duties of a Sovereign. We know bow he has kept all the oaths which he has lavished, from his first rebellion at Aranjues, against his own father, to his last protesta tions of moderation made to the Dauphin, at the very moment when his Royal Highness had just delivered him from a yoke less degrading than that which he has since taken on himself, and had opened to him the gates of Cadiz. It now remains to be seen what guarantee will be re quired from Ferdinand, and what further pledge he can offer of fidelity to the most solemn promises. The first end most essential of these guarantees would be an iiTevocablc renunciation of absolute power—of that power, withopt check and control of which he has not been able to make any other use than to" recede blindly from misfortune to misfortune, and to dig under his feet an abyss into which he cannot fail to precipitate himself and his people, unless he can be deprived of a weapon which is equally fatal to the throne and Co all Spain. ( (Prom the CmatiltWound of l)ec. 26 and 27.) PARIS, DEC. 20..--7lt is announced to-day, as a certain fact, that the Cabinet of Madrid has accepted all the pro posals of En t i ; houl, suul au...c.i.e,,,,,edruo ieo v i Constitutionel Government of Portugal. There are very few parsons. who disbelieve this news. It seems natural that the Spanish Government, to avoid a dangerous war, in which it would be engaged without any ally except .our Apostolic Junta, consents to the arrangement which will be proposed to it. The display of ,the British force.—the vast preparation which Great Britain is making 7 —will no longer permit the Spanish Ministry to chide the question, and gain time; they are not in a condition to maintain a war with Portugal and its allies; they must then accept the conditions of peace. But here a new question arises. le the Spanish Government, in the present state of things, able to keep its promises, and fulfil its engagements ? Tied they not solemnly pro mised to disarm the Portuguese rebels—had they not en gaged to disperse them ? The declaration of Mr: Canning, and tlie explanation of the Baran de Dairies, do not allow' us to doubt it. Yet the insurnts have received better arms in the room of those which they had laid down ; far from being dispersed, they have been under the eyes and protection of the superior agents of the Government,' and they. have invaded their own country; nay more, it is now known that Spanish troops, particularly corn panics of lancers, have followed the hostile movements of the Marquis de Chaves. The Cabinet of Madrid has . . therefore been either insincere in its promises, or unable to keep' them. It now remains to be seen whether this Cabinet has changed its principles, or whether it has ac quired the strength necessary to require and obtain obe- aience to its orders. On either supposition we do not see what,guarantee it can offer either of its sincerity, or its power. The official acts, the Proclamations of the Corn, mandate of provinces, the Apostolic lettere, provelhat the Spanish Court, the Ministry, and the Clergy, detest the Portuguese Charter, and thut they would consider as a very great misfortune the necessity of recognising it. On the other hand the Monkish faction has taken ofd' the mask -; and this faction is more poWerful in Spain than the Go vernment itself. This is proved by the expedition of the Marquis de Chaves, which was prepared and paid by: the - convents on the Peninsula, It is therefore - reasonable to suppose, that so long as there shall be no change in Spain, either, of the principles of the Government, or in the organisation of the A'dmirti. stration, or in the diposition of the Priests and the Monks, the duration of peace will be always uncertain. Thus, so long as Spain shall remain what it is, promises and engage ments will be only empty fOrms, and the tranquility of Europe will be incessantly threatened. It would not even be sufficient as a guarantee of . the general'peaee, that there be a change in the political system of the Peninsula. It would be necessary that this change should extend to our Ministry, which is too weak to oppose the intrigue of our Congregation, which inspires and urges on the Spanish Congregation. This weakness of our Ministry is manifested especially by the sacrifice of our liberties and ,the choice of itsagents. The hatred of our Apostolics for the public and private rights of the French is as violent as that of the Spanish Honks fer,the Portuguese Charter. The first rule among us; it is they who keep out of all employments men who are known for constitutional opinions, who practice the vexations which the liberty of the press has made known ; a salutary publicity, which is audaciously pointed out as an inexcusable licentionsnes4 Nobody is now ignorant that the French Apostolic junta his its correspondents-- its Ministers--'-its Ambassadors in the Peninsula; and it may be considered Us a positive fact, tharM. Frunchet is mere powerful, at Madrid than M. de Villele. We have pointed out the wound; the interest of our country made this a duty.. So' long .as the Spanish Go vernment shall be in the hands of the monks—so long as our Ministry' sball not shake off the yoke of this congrega tion-80 it.shall : not seek a support in the nation, and in general interests,' we cannot hope for a durable peace. There will be negociations, conventions, and even treaties; but all this will be precarious, it will not dispel distrust and enmity ; the combustible materials , will still waits( 'only for the spark which will remain collected, kindle them into the most terrible conflagration. The news, which we have this moment received; con. firms these observations. While the Spanish Government is entering into pacific engagements, Spain has risen, and is in a flame. A letter from Madrid of the 14th, publish ed by the Indichleui• of Bordeaux, a well-infornied Jour- nal; iinnOunces thatthe Convents situated near the frontiers of Portugal are converted into manufactories of attnii; into magazines of clothing and accoutrements, and into. ar senals. It is added, that the clergy lavish gold in the pro vince of Galicia and Salamanca, to obtain recruits and swell the ruhkd of the Portuguese insurgents. Now treat With the GbVerninent of such fl cdtititifi (From the Quotidienne.) Two eciuriers.from Spain have arrived at the office of the Minister for Foreign Affairii. Yesteiday Morning the telegraph Of Bayonne was long at work, and yet the evening Ministerial Journal observes) the most profound silence; it merely tries to cast doubt on the occupation of Oporto and Coimbra. \Ve guarantee to our readers the authenticity of the de tails ebntailiOd in our last buflrtini Wti will add, that the insurrection which broke oat at Lamego, at the beginning of December, had extended to Vises, one of the principal cities of Upper Beira. It was on the 6th that Visen de clared apmst the Regency: This event was announced to the Codes at Lisbon on the sitting of the 12th, Viseu being only fifteen or eighteen leagues from Coim bra, It may be conceived that only a few days were ne cessary to make this latter city follow the example of the other. nut the spirit of the people in Portugal is so de cidedly opposed to the new order of things, that but for the presence of the English fleet in the Tagus, it is ptd bable that the inhabitants of Liibon would have already answered to the signal given by those of Coimbra, Viseu, and Latino. An idea of the fears conceived by the Regency, of the dispositions of the capital, may be found frottt the Police Ordinance published on the 12th, prohibiting all assem blages in the streets and squares, by night and by day. What shall we think of the state of a city in which such measures are necessary ? (From the Journal des Deigns of Wednesday.) • We are assured that in the secret committee a general discus sion arose on the affairs of Portugal. M. d e Villele , it is said, confirmed, by fresh explanations, the speech delivered in the Chamber of Peers by' the Minister for Foreign' Affair s ; an d h e de- dared that all the Powers were agreed in allowing England to act as she had done. MM. Machin, de Vauhlane, de Beautnont, de Martignac, Agier, Hyde de Neuville, anti Sebastiani, spoke. M. de Villele ascended the tribune twice. All the Ministers were in their places. The debate on the Address was not concluded, and another secret committee is announced for to-morrow. The fol. lowing is M. de Beaumont's speech : " Gentlemen,—A good but weak King lately reigned in. Pm.- toga]. lie loved his people, and was beloved by them. He wished to render them free and happy, but being want►ng in vigour, his good intentions were lost to his country. He descended- to the tomb amidst the lamentations of his subjects, who foresaw the evils which were about to befall them. After the death of King John, one of his Jona, now Emperor of Brazil, while renouncing the rights whic'i he bad to reign over Portugal, disposed of that crown by an act of his own will, transferring it to his daughter ; but it was not ancient Portugal which he gave her to govern ; it was a Portugal altogether new, transformed after the English fashion, and which retains no resemblance to the 411Cient.— A charter arrived from Brazil: it was brought by an Eng- liih Ambassador, and strongly suspected to be his work. It overthrew and destroyed all the ancient laws of Portugal ; it is entirely opposed to the rights, the manners, the 'ideas, and even the prejudi►es of the Portuguese. This new manufacture is not received with the enthusiasm which its authors had hoped ; men of considerable authority by their birth, their fortunes, their talents, and the places which they occupy, refused to recognise its legitimacy, and appealed to the ancient laws of the country,, sonctioned by the Cortes of Lamego—their voice was stifled, and they have been obliged to seek an asylum in a neigithouring king dom. In the mean time the new charter was established without any obstacle; the time of reflection, however, arrived. The right which the Emperor of Brazil assumed ofsubverting the order of things established in Portugal, was examined and contested, its legitimacy was even questioned, the emigration of the Portuguese became considerable, but they were replaced by. Sanfards, who, snenntented with their Government. came into Portugal.' In a snort time every thing assumed, a new aspect.. emigrants returned. to their' country, and almOst w popu-. lation received them as their deliverers ; even the 'soldiers of the Regency joined their ranks. - While this contest was going on, the English Government undertook the task of making the Bra zilian charter triumph by force, and of inoculating the Portuguese with liberal ideas by the bayonet. An appeal is 'made' to France ' to induce her to share the dangers and.the - glory •of this singu• lar enterprise. Shall we answer this call? Shall we, after having lavished our treasures and the blood of our armies with out advantage either for France or Spain ; without knowing how we are to obtain for a generous people, who, in the absence of Royalty, preserved the honour of their Crown • untarnished, the institutions which had been solemnly promised them, the restora tion of the ancient liberties of the Spanish nation ; shall we, I say, assist the English Government in its proposed object of hu miliating Spain, and in imposing by force on the Portugue nation charter nibieh it rejects, and an order of things which it die claims?' Shall we say to the Portuguese, you must be made free,' whether you will or no—free, too, according to our manner, and not your own—you must be Englishmen or Frenchmen, or tiny thing, hut not Portuguese? Much is said about absolutists.; but I ask you, gentlemen, are not those the real absolutists who, having only one idea in their heads, one measure for all shapes, paying no regard to climates, manners, characters, and situations, would compel all nations to submit to the same form of Govern meat ? Are not those absolutists who conceive that a Sovereign, even a legitimate one, has the right of imposing on his people a new social order, without consulting them, without entering into concert with him ; in fact, even in opposition to the sentiments and ideas which prevail among them; and all this without any necessity whatever, without coy extraordinary circumstances to require such changes—in a word, by an act of his good pleasure, without reflecting that if • this right be granted to one sovereign, the power cannot be refused to his successor of overthrowing this order of things, and of substituting another? I have been told that in another chamber a comparison was made of the rights of Don Pedro with those exercised by Louis XVIII., in giving us our Charter ; but never was any state of things moist diffe rent. When the Bourbons, after is long-nag; were restored to the wishes and to the love of the French, Louis IVIII. found around him nothing but ruins : ail our ancient institutions, had disap peared in the tempest. Louis XVIII. wa s therefore placed in a situation of reigning without institutions , ' or giving us new ones. Ile was, too, too enlightened not to perceive that absolute govern ment never could 'fix its roots in the soil of France,tbeing the Sole recognized power, the only one which was not disputed. He had to derive from himself those institutions *hick reconstructing the chain of time, :night, as far ae;possible, .satisfy ancient rights and new interests, and the institutions which he gave were received with enthusiasm throughout the whole of France, What a dif ference, gentlemen, between this and what is now passing in Por tugal. If you have any doubt of the *version, I will say of the horror, which the Brazilian charter excites among the Portu guese people, you have only to read the English papers : you will there see that the English acknowledge that almost the whole po pulation is against them, and avow that to maintain by force a Government established by them against the will of the people, and odious to the people,' they must place garrisons in the coun try, and make themselves the executioners of the Portuguese ; finally, they declare; that no undertaking can be more pre sumptuous and more hopeless. It appeared to me, gentlemen, that this brief exposition of what preceded, and has brought on our present situation, cannot be foreign en the discussion in which we are engaged. • " In this stets of things, ought we in an address replying to a speech from the throne to give our approbation to an alliance with the English Government for the proposed object? Such is the question on which you have to deliberate, for if it belong ex clusively to the King's Government to conclude treaties of peace and alliance, the right of expressing or withholding one approba tion also belongs incontestably to us. Let us, in the first place, consider what is the real object of the English Government: I know the apparent object is to protect, by an armed interference, the maintenance of the • charter imported from Brazil, end under that hypothesis I have already said what I think of such inter ference ; but laity more, I maintain that such is not, and cannot be, the real object of the English Government. The English Go vernment can be under no mistake as to the consequencee which must necessarly flow from the establishment of a representative Government in Portugal; it cannot be ignorant that the core , ‘ sequence would, in a time not very distant, be the emancipa tion of Portugal from, the yoke of English tutelage. Eng land is proud of her liberty, and she has reason to be so ; but I greatly doubt that she takes any pleasure in seeing the establishment of other free Governments, and it may be pos sible that Mr. Canning and Prince Metternich are travelling together by different roads to the sense goal; and if the Eng lish Government had for its real object the establishment of a -. • representative system m P or tugal ' , • hnw happened it, that it opposed the such a system when King John the Sixth wished to establish it ? It is true that it was not the English constitution, more or less modified, which that worthy King wished to impose on his people; it was the restoration of the ancient French franchises, adapted to their present wants, which he *hilted to offer to their free acee ptancti Thia is an historical fact Which the oinance of the sth of June, itil4, authenticate.. What, then, cou ld hale prevented this royal intention Rota having been carried into effect, it it was not English policy ? If it *as not English policy, then it must hafe Wit ones, for all the world knows that England and France were then the ohly poWers which possessed any real interest over the Cabinet of Lisbon. If the faiilt Wag ours, Ve have been greatly guilty with respect to that tinfoittinaie atioii: Shall we accuse our Ambassador, who at that time possessed all the dolfidfnee of King John ? But,, be sides that, his noble character rapati al suspicion its this respect ; he wonid 'Mit been recalled by his Couiti ledd: he stied contrary to his instructions: It is nnuth more natural to Apra* that the English Government did not Wish the Portuguese to be happy and free without its permission, and titzt now it is not so much liberty that it conveys to them as civil war. ittail wished' to avenge the dismissal of Lord Beresford, and the attempts which were recently made by Portugal to withdrawherself from the British domination. But do not deceive yourfelces ; it is not merely this part of the Peninsula that the English Government has devoted to disorder and anarchy, hut the whole Peninsula. The English Ministerial Govern ment paper, called the Sox, leaves no doubt on this point ; it says, . 4 ' Spanish Government has reached the term of its existence, Spain must be finally sacrificed;" and Mr. Canning himself does not separate Spain fretn Revd, in what he calls " the narrow limits within which the new war may he lighted up."— Such, gentlemen, are the projects in which we are about to aid and assist; such the alliance to which we are about to sacrifice the monatchy of Philip V., the ties of blood, and the family compact. How can we do too much for those worthy allies, who boasted in full Parliament of having duped no, of having rejoiced at seeing UP fall into a snare, in which we struggle in vain, and out of which we cannot get with honour ? We are told of the aggression of the Spanish Government, because that Government could nut prevent the Portuguese Government from returning to their country with arms in their hands, because that return appeared to be favoured by some Spaniih officers, who had the charge of disarming them, and this accusation has been repeated by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. But how often have armed hands, issuing from the rocks 1 of Gibraltar, attempted to incite insurrection in Spain; and if they were not received there as the Portuguese, Emigrants have been, no thanks to the English Government for that. Still they dare to speak of aggression ; but is not he the aggressor, who boasted in the English Parliament, not merely of having made his country profit by the separation of the Spanish colonies from the mother country, but of being the author of that separation, of hav ing called into existence new republics formed out of the ruins of Spanish power ? And will it still be asked whence comes the aggres sion ? For this pretended aggression of Spain it is wished to render us reponsihle. Our good faith has been suspected, and in the ey‘ of Europe we are made to submit to the contempt of the Eng. lish Ministers-.-to the irony of their •justifications--and to the ar rogance of their eventual menaces. Are we, then, no longer the France of Louis XlV.—the soldiers of Fontmloy and of Auster litz? It is proposed, gentlemen, that we shall associate ourselves with English policy, in which we shall have for allies the allies of Quiroga, and all the disaffected of Europe. What a part for France to play ! The disaffected ! Are there none of them in England ? Does the English Minister suppose that a population of 'starving manufacturers, and 5,000,000 of men wounded in their religious feelings, are well-affected subjects ? Believe use, gentlemen, the English ./Eolus is more interested than any one else in chaining up the tempests, of which he might perhaps be the first to experience the ravages. The prosperity of England may have more analogy than many are aware of with the court of the king of the winds. Our Minister for Foreign Affairs threatens the Spanish Government with withdrawing our support, on ac count of its having despised our counsels, or not being able to fol low them.. Note well this alternative. So, because, after our victories, we have left Spain a prey to anarchy; because that anarchy Juts endured for three years in -the presence of our Army of Occupation, we now proceed to punish the Spanish Government for not being" able to prevent some Portuguese emigrants, favoured by a part of the Spanish population, from returning with arms in their hands-into their own country! And in punishment - of her weakness, we deliver up Spain, defenceless as she is, not to Portugal, the Minister said, for Portugal and Spain appear to be perfectly agreed in their hatred of this • Brazilian charter, but to England, which, after lighting Up civil war in Portugal, may try to pro pagate it in Spain.. llut what to us would be the relit& of such " lat l--- Vl' tie wle we were. years ago, with 300,000, ar woe e rendered equally odious to both parties which divide Spain. Be.; sides, if when the honour of France is the question, it he allow able to descend - to peeuniary considerations, I would ask whether, under such circumstances, a rupture with Spain would not cause the loss of the sums due to us for the expeuce of our Army of Oc cupation? For you do not imagine that your worthy allies would permit you to pay yourselves by the conquest. No, gentlemen, in such a partnership the division is already made—the profit will be for them, the shame for you. The Minister for Foreign Af fairs, in concurrence with Mr. Canning, tries hard to find a re semblance between the occupation of Spain in 1823 by the French armies, and the present interference of England in the affairs of Portugal ; but the difference of the cases is too obvious to escape your observation. In 1823, the Peninsula was in flames, and the French Government might justly fear that the conflagration, would extend to France; it was therefore conceived that it was not only the interest of France, but her duty, to extinguish the conflagration. With regard to Portugal, on the contrary, an attempt is made to change the laws of the country. The nation sees with pain this revolution, and is in arms to oppose it. The contest in Portugal is a family affair, which can in no way compromise the security or the prosperity of England. Here, Gentlemen, I wish that the Chamber should rightly understand that I am far front being the partisan of absolute Governmeut. I sun not one of those who firmly believe the leg-Wu:tack of the Grand Turk. I ant of Opinion, that wherever despotism and ar bitrary rule reigns, there is an usurpation . of the liberties of the people, for one man never consents to become voluntarily the pro perty of another. lam aware that in the progress of time there are formed among nations new interests which require new gua rantees, and that new wants arise which must be satisfital. I sincerely wish that every people should enjoy all the liberty of which it is susceptible. But I think that nothing but time, and successive ameliorations, can bring about such changes in the si tuation of nations ; that it is not by insulting their ideas, their manners, or even their prejudices, that such changeni can be brought about ; that, above all things, this is not to be done by employing violence • and that nothing can b e mor e a b sur d than to wish to compel the people to be free against their incli nation, or to pretend that the same form of Government ought to fit all nations. Laws, says Montesquieu, ought to be so well suited to the people for whom they are made, that it is a great chance that tho laws of one nation can be adapted to another. Let the English Minister play the Dort Quixote of Represen tative Government, and let us not follow in his train like that grotesque personage described in the romance of Cer vantee. Such a situation doee : not become uh. Representative government is , unquestionably a fine conception, and if it car ried with it in practice all that it . promises in theory, every one would be impressed with the .advaritage which it holds out above all other governments for the happiness of nations. But if the observer, who endeavours to look to the bottom of things, too often discovers under its brilliant exterior only servility, corruption, the spirit of .parties, and an enormous in gress of public burdens, may he not think, that a nation edu cated in different ideas is excusable fur manifesting rePg nance towards that form of government, especially who' L t . , i a Pa brought to it by a hand whose praises ought to be cossete d I entertain, however, gentlemen, some satisfaction in thinking, longerlhis, i ndeed, endeavourw i llo be t that as I see your minister entering a league to g ive i i _natitt tions to Portugal which Portugal does not wish t o have, a° w"! no longer refuse to give to France those which she hits so long de manded, and inn particular that he will no restrain the liberty which we still possess. carrying the spirit of contradiction too far. Ins other matters, whatever may be the diversity of our opinions, we surely shall have only one when tine national honour is is question. We ought to amine in the address a tone so mush the more high, as it has been entleiveureil to depress it ; and -I owe that it he. re ferret' back tin the comMittee, to be drawn up anew." The following fact will prove, better than all we. could say, the present state of justice in. Spain. The case in question has lasted during the three last years, and is far from being ter minated yet. . put in la s r u g s e pe l e an te, d i d owi b m e r bl a g nd a perpetual prison in MS. and his ,R)reg D thi o tei n orc T ,mo i r setiatpuoutroveaaw.Viiriegainti•meesel,p, awaino, successor refused to restore to him the enjoyment of his liberty and property. The Royal Audieneia of Valladolid having decided in his favour, the Corregidor sent M. Valcarcel for Segovia, and de livered him to the Ecclesiastical Tribunal, which threw him into e t the a dungeon and left him three months concealed. After a number of references and appeals from one Tribunal to our holy religion dtiting'the pretended Constitutional regime, he atb n a o t th a e s r, it ti:c p . p Ecclesiastical efen T d r a i b b e ti b niti o i t4 neo e n n o g u u n i c i rl y otfheoejturdeggne:enotz,k must toe exeommunicated until a contrite repentance shall attain his absolution : moreover, that be be confined to the convent of Franciscans for one year, where he will be at the discretion Otitis Prelate s and where he will be allowed to read no books but those calculated to excite contrif on ; and if at the end of that time a favourable reinct should be made, he may be set at liberty, and his property restored. Don Thomas ValeopTel has appealed to the Ecclesiastical Tri bunal of Alcalu De genres, of which Segovia is Suffragan. It may serve to itllarthe apprehensions of our merOants con nected with Oporto, to, state, that two ships of war were, long sinex, despatched by Ministers to that port, in order to render whatever proteetion and aid to the British residents and to Uri te, a ti t ah the lm' p o re p : t n nitrilfa proper t y ffie fi pi essi nog a us (i f report t.:.®t the Duke of York was easier yesterday. It they 6e a further' a013 , 6Z e to his Royal H i g hngsh vrb it i , ch eYetit s mi g ht re q uire..—Areou, nessa. he never either broke a ptt6othisekti°o"; : t is s * .'' i :i i ri l ' 2-f r b i lltlftik ' tbat DAY AT 014% 0 tZ.T:IIt; PRICI/S OF STOCKS THI Bank ......... 199 N 200 3 pee Ceet.:Red... 4.. 79 %%% 3 per Coca. Colts. .. . — tpee Cent, . .. " ..... . tto Red. 78134 64 t per Cent. New .. Ditto, 1826 ..... 5 1 4 Bank Long Anti—. —. 1811-16 nA India Stock • Ditto Bonds pm. South Sea Stoat Old ..... New Ditto .... ......... ... 1 . 1 91 W .... Ex. Bins, £1,4 001,0b0 .... .. - Ditto 5OO .......I'T. 1040, Dttto Small «..« ....... Intro. Ditto Commercial .........« Bank for Accnaut ............. -••• India Aw AC.C.DMIt ......... . .... Cow. for Actt. ........ 80 ... TNDS AT ONE 01C1..t0.,N. NeapoUto4 ..18114 ........... Peruviantidt ............. ... . =uose Bon'ie ............... n, 5 por resit. ..... . . ..... Ditto, New ........... ...... .. , . I N isas Tr i ................... .. ... ... ............................ French &Wei, 4P. ....... of. W. ......... gif. 58c, .. .. ...flal , PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bon di,s per cent. — Bniaihan Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds. Chiban Bonds, t 1 per et Colombian Bond* Ditto, 18114 .34N Danish, 3 per cent. Greek Bonds Ditto, lfe26 I7S 17 Guatamala_ • • Mexican Bondi ...... .......c...,... 06 c LOClCii.:).,::,S7h,i're" -------__ , A Brazilianngi.i ' $lO VA £2ll i2za Potosi La Paz and Peruvian * Assoc, ......... 5 ..... Real del - Monte Minin g C pan Y............. 4°" can 400 VS' Milo New tOg United Mexican Xining Catnparr ............ 274 P Mexican ß3 Mining iCn PRICES Sgm Mining g F S A AR pacain y.. p...... ri g . . :,. a . . . . . .. . 7 . . . . . . . .o . . : 1 . p t:, xli d o . .... ................. soo PRICE OF IRIS/ 1 Bank Stock • ....... 1 Gov. Stork, 3% per cent. 054 Ditto, Nese 91 , 1 per Cent. Gov. Deb. 3% per cent Consols, 3 percent. 7O Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock -- City Deb. 4 per cent. --- Ballast Office Deb. 4per tent ---- STOCKS, DEC. DEC. 27. St. rattiak Insist. (pet share).- Royal Irish Ditto ........... . ..... National Ditto ................ ...... .. -- Patriotic Ditto ................ -.. liibernian Bank ......... . ..... Ifilit 1 lovlncial Ditto ............ . ... ~. ..... l'loyal !tisk Mille .... ............ ,- --- Imperial Mine ................... Mining Co. of Ireland .... ........ --- , Comperes' Buildings...#.4... -* COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam C.F. 12 5 Ditto, at sight . Rotterdam .2 U. 12 6 Antwerp :2 6 liamburgh 41 A U. 37 4 Altana Paris, 3days' sight 234 U. 25 60 Ditto 2 U. 25 85 Bordeaux 25 85 Berlin — Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M. 154 Petersburgh, rble 3U. 9 0 Vienna, etflxtive ti 2 M. 10 14 Trieste do. Madrid 331: Cadla Bilboa '34 Barcelona 'l3l' Seville '134 Gibraltar .1.5 Leghorn .......... ..., ..... .....•• Genoa.lraiGeEnnli E ... 5. .... E .. ............... et, 1 , ................ .. ........... Venice ......................... ......, Malta ........................ .+0.... I,:Vled ....................... .......- , .... • Lisbon. ................... ....".• Oporto ............................. - . Rio Janeiro .................. ,-... Ilahia ......................... ...... Buenos. Ayres ••;•"'h Dublin, 21 days' sight ... Cork ................... ....... . sycLios, .01 Portugal Gold, in Coi n " Foreign Gold, in natl .. " New Doubloons '''''''''' New Dollars ............ lit Wm standard. Arrived. A mulch O Brazil 0 O Buenos Ayres O Donaghadoe 0 I Dublin O Flanders 0 0 France O Gottenburgh 0 Arrived. I Guernsey &Jr n Hamburgh n Holland ............ O Jamaica ............ • Laeward .eland Lisbon ............. O Malta ............ 1 Waterford ...... HIGH WATER AT LOND. Morning so,minutes after 3. N )3111[DOE TOOM% Evening 7 minty At t . 11114 , -;,x • • = JIA • • 0.1 t mr • 411, I ae "ormglval:ltoPal L 0 VINTS ---- • P '7' , SATUR .....-----1-- • ' ----------.: In addition to the Etoile dated Thursday formes: DAY EVENING DEC 30 16211; ' ae contents of which we inserted in our Paper pf Yel 4 l,' .erday, we have received the other Paris Papers ~ Wednesday. Several of these Papers mention ai certain fact, that the Cabinet of Madrid has accepre „ all the proposals of Great Britain, and has even se a to recognise the Constitutional Government of Pcrl tt gal ; but a distrust of the fulfilment of the promiso°' 14 aRDINAND prevails; and it is considered (1111004.: able whether he will give that guarantee for ti'' bin cerity of his professions, which Can alone rendet hi , present submission to the demands made upon his tie''' vcrinnent of any value —namely, the renunciation ifi move a n . , v t t, e hl d e, sv i , absolute power in his own kingdom. No authentic news from Portugal of a r ecent has reached Paris. A private letter from Liston mentions that the. QUEEN had attempted to esoP e. wQiuthouszo,maendofirrlifteartedcotatfit confidantes' all from the lge. 11 wa eicssiolgiendinte,alliestthtae_tr Ttloanitishrpoe.read:l:tli•liAtb'erlitirTtiiciAlcftirtiinrgel',..,l:,(.ll:;r:la ~ an:hticiatQ:oetiidiactiesturtra7retieletiibrieortss."erts with col e . i s l ei: l nr i e it: d i ..i. oC' ace the guard, both infantry ar. ' cupation of Oporto and Coimbra bye the Itorl''''', t 4) i the ttai.lk lo at f h th to e tlrelbeeiCs'halrZs• NI Chamber of Deputies a lov principal towns in Upper Beir... has riot y,t , t he Secret dross to the PP have b ee n leo, 41' Throne, appears to an . stormy. The whole question of Spain the Corn tugal is said to have been brought before . 4 , mitten, and the discussion was adjourned to %i ° 1 0 , 4 day. M. VIL LELE appears to have spoken twit:OP d o it is said that he confirmed, by fresh cleclarations,..i. c a speech delivered in the Chamber of Peers by tl,;cxeri nister for Foreign A ff airs, declaring, that all th e t , 10 ointea to °;ellpiltrt: ti:i::, were • lit ol done. This latter ex p ression may suit the pm • fulfilling ° the French nation, but Great Britain, in a to conditions of her Treaties, and affording asgig i r i b et agreed in allowing England to act AS 'l4 , a faithful Ally, did not ask the permission 9r ° ice Powers to do so, and will not depart from her Pi' ' whether they will allow it or not; Extracts will be found in another column. ----- i i,,, to.- Since writing the above we have receive' -' I ; i press from Paris the French Papers hl` Thor 44 . 4 Y s ti ' : the Etoile dated Friday morning; their (014(4, however, are not of any , great importance: ,:; to ; tiros; in the Secret Committee, after three dar 1 -" i cto , sion, seems to have passed on Thursday 111'1,410 and was to be presented to the KING at etgll' ° , r . t 'i at night. The 'toile classes amongst Die l ' r t Day the assertion of the Constitutional, t'lta. extraordinary Courier had arrived in Paris, b4l*-; the positive news that the Ultimatont o f Ell ,) been accepted by the Spanibh Cabine rket,.,Hitoc l sbi e ul ; r : reteY a r e nßoi . " :_t no..t)do i e t nßo t . r . l lth b rill Tr . 4 o . 7 :k:: l" . l l:: : p se t fut° o:2frke rr : o "°l3°°l3%ll4 t4o.h:: bald of Hillgli°:neill'ehat C rc E e s ut OF STOCKS' THIS DAT AT ONE 0 e;.." ;11" .- or S d o " ;th Se t" : St 4 o h e: el .l l : ". .r - •,,, : 1-A : lra cm ; s : ...,...... .. . .. .7 . 9 . }6_%% O x l ew d A i r itt i o lit! ..... ..... .......... ....,..............:-..,..,.. as, 30 Lt1 ;enFt1826 : t d5 .N. A :".. n : n....... 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